Animal Products

Persistent organochlorine residues in foodstuffs from India and their implications on human dietary exposure

Foodstuffs collected from different regions in India were analyzed for the presence of HCH (BHC), DDT, HCB, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, and PCBs. Significantly high levels of food contamination with HCH, DDT, aldrin, and dieldrin were evident throughout India. Dairy products and livestock meat are the prime sources of human dietary exposure to these chemicals.

Publication Date:

01/03/1992

Author(s): Kurunthachalam Kannan, Shinsuke Tanabe, Aramandla Ramesh & et al

Source: Journal of Agricultural And Food Chemistry

Vol:

40

Issue:

3

pp:

518

Tags:

Animal Products, Food Contamination, DDT, Pesticides And Toxins, Heptachlor, Aldrin, Dieldrin, Toxicity Studies, India, Delhi, Madras (D), Calcutta (D)

Health

Meat and the Big 'C' Risk

Is your love for red and processed meat getting you into trouble? The World Health Organisation seems to think so. It has released a report stating that consumption of red and processed meat is linked to cancer of the stomach, colon and pancreas. But is a renouncement of meat the answer? Nutritionists differ, claiming that not all meat proteins can be replicated by plant products. On Agenda, we debate an altered Hamlet dilemma - to eat or not to eat, that is the question!

Tags:

Health, Animal Products, Cancer, Antibiotics, Food Process Industry, Health Effects, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Health

China warns of tit-for-tat over dairy ban

Beijing Raises Doubts Over India

Publication Date:

01/07/2009

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Animal Products, Milk, Milk Products, Health Effects, Child Health, China, India, Toxins

Mining

Bytes

marburg hemorrhagic fever: Following two cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Uganda, scientists are collecting bats from the country's lead and gold mines where the victims had worked. Around five

Publication Date:

29/09/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Animal Products, Organic Foods, Mining, Health Effects, Workers, Maternal Health, Medical Research, Child Health, Breast Feeding, Viral Diseases, Physical Science, Astronomy, Uganda

Environment

Rattlesnake roundup in Texas

Throughout the second week of March people from the west Texas town of Sweetwater were out with their tongs to catch rattlesnakes. They were preparing to attend the world's largest rattlesnake

Publication Date:

14/04/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Animal Products, Wildlife, Reptiles, United States Of America (US)

India

In Short

jn-nurm gets a chair: The Union ministry of urban development has appointed Ramesh Ramanathan, founder of Janaagraha, a citizens' movement on participatory democracy, as the honorary national

Publication Date:

14/04/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060415

pp:

0

Tags:

River Pollution, Animal Products, Health Effects, Biodiversity, Exports, Governance, India, Goa, Sikkim, Toxic Wastes

Environment

For a common environmental ethic

Let s understand that species have both aesthetic and utilitarian values

Publication Date:

14/03/2006

Author(s): Kartik Shanker

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060315

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Wildlife, Poaching, Animal Products

Industry

Poultry business too serious to be left to industry

The news that Indian poultry in parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat have been detected with the deadly avian influenza virus may have temporarily shaken chicken eaters in the country. But it will be a

Publication Date:

14/03/2006

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060315

pp:

20

Tags:

Animal Care, Animal Breeding, Animal Diseases, Poultry, Animal Products, Vaccination, Industry, India